{"id":7164,"date":"2017-04-27T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2017-04-27T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:34:01","slug":"manifesto-of-the-international-workers-league-for-may-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2017\/04\/27\/manifesto-of-the-international-workers-league-for-may-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Manifesto of the International Workers\u2019 League for May 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n1. May 1st is an international day of struggle of the working class, not a holiday.\u00a0To have 200 million unemployed around the world cannot be celebrated. According to the ILO, just a quarter of workers have a stable job, and wages are lower each time. For most workers around the world, there is not enough money to get to the end of the month.
\nNeoliberal plans attack minimum rights, like retirement and paid recess. Poor die before they get attention in public hospitals. Even in imperialist countries, the crisis of public health and education is growing. Police invades poor neighborhoods like an occupation troop, killing indiscriminately. This also happens in imperialist countries, where freedoms are under attack and there is a growing repression, like in France and the Spanish State.
\nEvery day the environment is destructed to get more profits.
\nCapitalism uses oppression to increase exploitation and divide the working class. Hate against immigrants and male-chauvinist and racist violence, as much as homophobia, put workers against workers, what helps the bourgeois domination.
\nIn the poor neighborhoods of the periphery of the cities around the world there is a deep rage growing. It is in these\u00a0places that we can feel people\u2019s reality, and not in the fancy halls of shopping centers in the cities.
\n2. Trump rules the U.S. showing that the true face of imperialism is the face of the extreme-right, of militarism, male-chauvinism, racism, homophobia, repression, environmental destruction.
\nHe aims to put\u00a0white workers against black workers, women and immigrants. He talks about creating jobs for white people, as if the other workers were responsible for the crisis. The real project of Trump is to divide workers and impose a harsh attack not only for immigrants and Blacks but also for white workers, who will see their wages\u00a0lowered\u00a0and their union rights banned.
\nThe reaction against Trump, with a demonstration of three million people in his first day in office, showed that class struggle polarization has reached the heart of imperialism. For this May 1st, U.S. workers, specially the most exploited segments \u2013 immigrants \u2013 are organizing a major mobilization of repudiation.
\nTrump wants to impose the interests of U.S. multinationals across the world using the military force and relying on the cowardice of the subjected governments.
\nThe recent attacks in Syria and Afghanistan, and\u00a0the threat to North Korea, are a serious threaten to workers and peoples of the world. On this May 1st, we have to denounce this with all our strength, and reject his imperialist policy of military aggressions.
\nYet, despite his intentions, in many countries there are huge demonstrations against Trump, showing that the anti-imperialist consciousness is growing around\u00a0the world.
\n3. Imperialist governments like Hollande (France), Cameron and May (Great Britain), Gentiloni (Italy) or Rajoy (Spanish State) implement violent neoliberal plans against the workers of their countries aiming to survive imperialist competition.
\nBut the important and growing political crisis in Europe \u2013 like the Brexit, and like the instability of the governments \u2013 show a growing polarization in this continent. The European Union<\/em>, which exploits and oppresses all Europeans serving the banks and strongest imperialist powers, is already showing signs of exhaustion.
\n4. The governments of semi-colonial countries implement the same neoliberal plans, yet in a harsher way. This is valid for the hated governments of Temer (Brazil), Macri (Argentina), Pe\u00f1a Nieto (Mexico), Cartes (Paraguay). It is also the case of Greece, which has become a German semi-colony. The huge political crisis in these countries show that the workers are tired of accepting these attacks. It is time to overthrow the governments that attack workers serving the multinationals.
\n5. Workers across the world must reflect on the role of \u201creformist\u201d and \u201cnationalist\u201d parties. The major current crisis of governments like Hollande, Maduro or Bachelet is explained because they implemented the same neoliberal plans as the \u201crightist\u201d governments. The crisis and fall of Dilma\u2019s PT government in Brazil has the same explanation. The governments of those parties are too\u00a0useful agents of the bourgeoisie and imperialism.
\nWhen those parties are in the \u201copposition\u201d, it responds only to the an electoral interest\u00a0to return to\u00a0power to implement the same neoliberal plans.
\n6. The parties presented as the new anti-austerity, radical and \u201canti-globalization\u201d left, alternative to the social-democracy, have the same practice when they reach the government.
\nSuch is the example of Syriza in Greece, which won stating it would not accept austerity and cut of rights, and when it got to the government, even after people\u2019s rejection through a referendum, it implemented\u00a0the harshest neoliberal plan in the country. Such is, also, the course of the Bloco de Esquerda<\/em>, in Portugal, supporting the government of the Portuguese Socialist Party.
\nThese anti-austerity parties of today are the social-democracy of tomorrow. Podemos<\/em>, in the Spanish State, will follow the same course as the PSOE, as evidenced in its prefecture in Madrid.
\nWe warn the workers that the PSOL, in Brazil, wants to follow the same steps as\u00a0the PT. It is not by chance that Lugo (Paraguay) defended together with the rightist government of Cartes an\u00a0amendment to legalize reelection, something unaccepted\u00a0by the Paraguayan people, that led them to set the Congress on fire.
\n7. The union bureaucracies across the world help maintain the bourgeois domination and exploitation. Entrenched to the privileges of the apparatuses, they help reformist and bourgeois parties in office or in\u00a0\u201copposition\u201d, to stall the workers\u2019 struggles. It is not by chance that many workers end up taking distance from the unions, because of the role of the leaderships.
\nIt is necessary to strengthen the consolidation of new leaderships from the rank and file, committed to the struggles and to workers\u2019 democracy.
\n8. Workers in China and Cuba still face, today, capitalist dictatorships which, in name of Socialism, attack workers and enrich the new bourgeoisie emerged of the old bureaucracy of the respective Communist Parties. In these countries, workers have to fight for their freedom of organization.
\nThe parties that keep the legacy of the old Communist parties, clustered in the so called \u201cCastro-Chavism\u201d, which are parties of Stalinist matrix, keep accumulating crimes against the workers and peoples struggles. The support to the genocide al-Assad, responsible for the death of half a million people and for the exile of more than twelve million Syrians, is a betrayal that will not be forgotten.
\nIn Venezuela, under the false speech of XXI Century<\/em> Socialism<\/em> and of confrontation with imperialism, Maduro takes one measure after another attacking workers\u2019 democratic rights, while the people does not have access to basic goods and food.
\n9. Big companies rule the world. They finance the campaigns of the parties and then get what they want of those governments. The \u201cdemocracy\u201d of the rich has nothing of democratic. The \u201cright\u201d and so-called \u201cleft\u201d parties are financed by big companies, thus they implement the same neoliberal plans. People vote but do not decide anything. It is the companies that rule.
\nThe 8 richest persons in the world \u2013 owners of big multinational companies \u2013 earn as much as the poorest half of humanity. The luxury of the houses, cars and parties of the bourgeoisie is outrageous.
\nCorruption is present in every government. And the bourgeois media tries to sell the idea that \u201ceveryone is corrupt\u201d. That is not true. Corrupts are the politicians and parties financed by big companies and banks that corrupt them to run the national States.
\n10. The world is built by workers. It is workers\u2019 hands that cultivate food, make cars and houses, hospitals and schools, cellphones and computers. The same workers that cannot eat, study, dress, and have access to dignified health and education.
\nCapitalism is the father of oppressions, repression and wars, as much as of the accelerated destruction of the environment. If workers had the power and could liberate the full development of productive forces, it would possible to end starvation and unemployment all over the world.
\n11. May 1st across the world must be a war cry for life. Let\u2019s unite workers to defeat the neoliberal plans and the governments that implement them. Let\u2019s demand from the Union leaderships to unify the struggles toward general strikes to point the path to the future. Let\u2019s call the exploited and oppressed population to defeat the capitalist dictatorships.
\nLet\u2019s build democratic bodies of the workers and new leaderships for struggle, from the rank and file. Let\u2019s unify the new leaderships through struggle coordinators.
\n12. It is possible to make a better world for our children. It is not true the world has always been and will always be like this. On this May 1st, it is time to raise high the flags of Socialism.
\nIn 2017 we commemorate the Centenary of the Russian Revolution. This historical experience showed it is possible to change the world. The expropriation of the bourgeoisie and planning of economy generated the greatest change even seen in economic history. It ended with misery and starvation; the people had quality health and education; women\u2019s struggle made a historic leap with the conquest of divorce, abortion, and equity of salary. Gay marriage was approved by the Soviet courts. Oppression over nationalities of the Tsarist Russia became a free union, the URSS.
\nDuring the first years of the Russian Revolution, before the Stalinist bureaucratization, the Russian proletariat was in power. There was never a democracy like it. Opposite to the current \u201cdemocracy\u201d of the rich, in workers\u2019 democracy the course of the country was decided by the ones that worked.
\nFor this amazing process to happen, it was necessary for a revolutionary party, Lenin\u2019s Bolshevik Party, to lead and call to build the Communist International.
\nNowadays, in 2017, the necessity of building a revolutionary party and international is more current that ever.
\nImperialist propaganda attempts to erase those advances from the memory of humanity, equaling the Russian Revolution to the bureaucratic and totalitarian Stalinist regime that ended up restoring capitalism. But the capitalist crisis brought Socialist ideas to scene again. Socialism is discussed once again all over the world.
\nAnd our red flags are raised on this May 1st with the pride of Socialist revolutionaries.
\nCome with us struggle against neoliberal plans of imperialism and its governments. Come with us to build socialist revolutionary parties. Together we will build the International Workers\u2019 League.
\nLong Live May 1st of workers\u2019 struggle!<\/strong>
\nOut with Trump and imperialism!<\/strong>
\nDown with imperialist military bases and interventions!<\/strong>
\nDown the neoliberal plans! Out with the bourgeois governments!<\/strong>
\nNo trust in reformist parties!<\/strong>
\nLet\u2019s follow the example of the Russian Revolution!<\/strong>
\nLong live revolutionary Socialism!<\/strong>
\nInternational Secretariat of the International Workers\u2019 League \u2013 Fourth International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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